Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.